Hauntingly Accurate “What It Feels Like” Temperatures

Weather Web sites have this cruel thing that they do wherein they tell you the temperature alongside a different number that is supposed to approximate how warm or cold it feels. (What’s this “warm”? you ask. Good question!) The feels-like number is a figure that incorporates things like wind chill, wind speed, something called “modern heat transfer theory” that we remember from the last act of Arcadia, and skin tissue resistance, according to the BBC. It does not take into account mitigating emotional factors—which is especially stupid in the context of trying to represent a feeling—so we’ve corrected for science’s grievous oversight. Below, what it actually feels like today in New York: